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    • FRAU GRUBER'S CAMP

      by Ted Barr

      What are the boundaries of evil? What is the meaning of life on the verge of arbitrary sudden death? Is it worth living behind an electric fence? Frau Gruber's Camp is a thrilling allegory about the faith of mankind in its darkest times, strongly reminiscent of George Orwell's masterpiece Animal Farm. A world that sustains people like Frau Gruber, Herr Schickl, and their morbid associates is not the same one we live in. Although in many ways their world appears to be similar, it is more of a parallel universe removed from the reality we know. However, at times the reader may overlook the differences and be drawn in. In this surprising and enigmatic novel, the reader is gently and slowly submerged into an imaginary micro-cosmos – a fantastic world that is both poetic and terrible, sometimes heart-wrenching and at other times horrifying, where life is but a transparent commodity. The roosters as human beings are just momentary visitors in a much larger play, whose meaning they are too short-sighted to comprehend (except the old rooster Ba Ba Loop that, like ancient prophets, has the eyes to see but does not possess the power to change). The only way to give meaning to such dreadful times is by committing it all to memory, which is the framework on which this novel is founded: human faith, forgetting, remembering, and the essence of life during an impossible epoch. Though taking off from a mainly conjured description of Adolf Hitler's early childhood, Frau Gruber's Camp does not stop at relating a story parallel in many ways to European Jewish history. Rather it evolves into a fable on overall human experience in the twentieth century, written through twenty-first century eyes as a contemporary bravado. The author, Ted Barr, 54, has a master’s degree in economics and varied areas of interest, including German history, symbolism, battalion and divisional tactics, and astronomy. Barr is a renowned artist, specializing in galaxies and other celestial elements. The author has developed a unique painting technique, which he teaches in workshops around the world. Barr is the founder of the Current Art Group, and his artistic activity can be viewed at his art site, www.tedpaintings.com . A Hebrew edition of Frau Gruber’s Camp was published in Israel in 2006, following Barr’s first book, Krombee, a children’s book first published in 1990. 116 pages, 14.5X21 pages

    • Science fiction (Children's/YA)

      Quinientas Veces Tu Nombre

      by Nacarid Portal

      Five Hundred Times Your Name is the first book of the Reborn series. It recounts the events following an unfortunate event: the demise of Demian Page. Six friends promise to keep quiet, but... what do you do when secrets start eating you from inside? Filled with mystery, love, literature, friendship and hard decisions, the story goes to show that the only way to get answers is connect­ ing with the questions of your own life. Shantal Bracovich has five hundred days to make a deci­ sion.The only rule is clear: do not fall in love. Feelings are forbidden and their abilities increase in geometric pro­ gression, which makes it harder to pretend in a setting full of enigmas. She thinks that only Demian can help her, until Abril Salvat begins attending the boarding school and becomes the exception.

    • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      September 2018

      Five Hundred Times Your Name

      by Nacarid Portal

      Five Hundred Times Your Name is the first book of the Rebirth series. It recounts the events following an unfortunate event: the demise of Demian Page. Six friends promise to keep quiet, but... what do you do when secrets start eating you from inside? Filled with mystery, love, literature, friendship and hard decisions, the story goes to show that the only way to get answers is connect­ ing with the questions of your own life. Shantal Bracovich has five hundred days to make a deci­ sion.The only rule is clear: do not fall in love. Feelings are forbidden and their abilities increase in geometric pro­ gression, which makes it harder to pretend in a setting full of enigmas. She thinks that only Demian can help her, until Abril Salvat begins attending the boarding school and becomes the exception.

    • The World Doesn't Work that Way, but It Could

      Stories

      by Yxta Maya Murray

      The gripping, thought-provoking stories in Yxta Maya Murray’s latest collection find their inspiration in the headlines. Here, ordinary people negotiate tentative paths through wildfire, mass shootings, bureaucratic incompetence, and heedless government policies with vicious impacts on the innocent and helpless. A nurse volunteers to serve in catastrophe-stricken Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and discovers that her skill and compassion are useless in the face of stubborn governmental inertia. An Environmental Protection Agency employee, whose agricultural-worker parents died after long exposure to a deadly pesticide, finds herself forced to find justifications for reversing regulations that had earlier banned the chemical. A Department of Education employee in a dystopic future America visits a highly praised charter school and discovers the horrific consequences of academic failure. A transgender trainer of beauty pageant contestants takes on a beautiful Latina for the Miss USA pageant and brings her to perfection and the brink of victory, only to discover that she has a fatal secret.The characters in these stories grapple with the consequences of frightening attitudes and policies pervasive in the United States today. The stories explore not only our distressing human capacity for moral numbness in the face of evil, but also reveal our surprising stores of compassion and forgiveness. These brilliantly conceived and beautifully written stories are troubling yet irresistible mirrors of our time.

    • Children's & YA
      September 2018

      JOURNAL D'UNE FILLE-CHIEN

      by LAURA JAFFÉ

      NOVEL One of the darkest times of humanity is repeating itself in this dystopic novel inspired by many real facts borrowed from the Nazi period. The destiny of a young girl is crippled by the rise of a new eugenic government. In the near future, in 2038, the totalitarian government is practicing genetic segregation of people with disabilities. Josépha, a teenage girl suffering from hypertrichosis (hair all over her body) writes in her diary about the rise of this new genetic fascism. Excluded from school because of her disability, she is then interned in a centre that looks more like a concentration camp than a place of care. She will try everything in her power to change the course of the terrible destiny that awaits her and her new companions of misfortune.

    • Education

      The Destructive Path of Neoliberalism

      An International Examination of Education

      by Porfilio, B. J.

      The Destructive Path of Neoliberalism: An International Examination, a compilation of twelve essays by leading scholars and educators, sheds light on the social, political, economic, and historical forces behind the rise of neoliberalism, the dominant ideological doctrine impacting developments in schools and other social contexts across the globe for over thirty years. Several authors provide rich empirical data from schools across the globe to capture how neoliberal imperatives, discourses, and practices are impacting teachers, students, and communities at today’s historical juncture. Finally, several contributors have developed pedagogical initiatives, suggest policy considerations, and convey theoretical insights designed to assist us in the struggle against the corporatization of schooling and social life.An International Examination of Urban Education: The Destructive Path of Neo-liberalism, by Bradley Porfilio and Curry Malott, is an important and provocative text, indeed; not only for its careful and eloquent theoretical and analytical examination of neo-liberalism and “globalization” in urban educational contexts -- and the dystopic and globally catastrophic consequences of these instantiations of late-capitalism -- but also because it is what its name implies, an international study of these phenomena (a study and critique by those most immediately and directly effected by the “manifest destiny” of capitalist imperialism). As neo-liberalism appears to be both in continued ascendancy and immanent collapse, Porfilio and Malott’s text is a must read for every serious student of education, political science and sociology.--Marc Pruyn, New Mexico State University (co-editor, most recently, with Luis Huerta-Charles of De la Pedagogía Critica a la Pedagogía Revolucionaria: Ensayos para Comprender a Peter McLaren from Siglo XXI Press in Mexico).

    • Biography & True Stories
      June 2018

      These Are Such Perfect Days

      The Del Amitri Story

      by Charles Rawlings Wray

      Glasgow band Del Amitri have sold more than six million albums. Their 1995 single Roll To Me cracked the Top 10 in the US, and five of their albums went Top 10 in the UK. But as yet there hasn t been anything substantial written about the band...until now! From ambition to success, this is the complete story of Del Amitri's rise from initial formation through six albums that took them to global recognition. From early Peel sessions, to touring with Morrissey; to appearing on Letterman and cracking the US, the book follows every up and down of the band s incredible career, as well as providing unique and original insights into their personalities and music.

    • Social & cultural anthropology
      May 2011

      Breathless

      Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia

      by Allen S. Weiss

      Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature.

    • October 2013

      A Guide to Poetics Journal

      Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998

      by Edited by Lyn Hejinian, edited by Barrett Watten

      An anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics

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